- Programme and Schedule
- Programme
Thursday, 14 May
15:30 - 18:30
Exibition opening
Duration: 180 min
17:00 - 17:30
Opening Ceremony
Duration: 30 min
17:00 - 17:10
Congress President Dagne Gravele
Duration: 10 min
17:10 - 17:15
IFCC
Duration: 5 min
17:15 - 17:30
EFLM
Duration: 15 min
17:30 - 18:30
Opening lecture - “From Today to Tomorrow: The Evolution of the Laboratory”
Duration: 60 min
Chair: Dagne Gravele
09:00 - 10:00
Plenary lecture: Overview of Digital Microscopy Capabilities
Duration: 60 min
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Duration: 30 min
10:30 - 10:50
Achievements and Problems of Laboratory Hematology in Estonia
Duration: 20 min
10:50 - 11:20
Latvia - Unmasking a Hematologic Disorder: Flu-like Symptoms as the First Manifestation of Peripheral Blasts
Duration: 30 min
Speaker TBA
11:20 - 11:40
Reference range by indirect method for basic hematology parameters in population of Latvia
Duration: 20 min
11:40 - 12:00
Lithuania - „Flow Cytometric Evaluation of Platelet Function Disorders“
Duration: 20 min
Gintarė Surplytė, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University
09:00 - 10:00
From Heidelberg to Riga: How precision medicine shapes the treatment of future pediatric patients
Duration: 60 min
10:30 - 10:50
Latvia - Prenatal Exome sequencing (ES) vs Chomosomal microarray (CMA) analysis experience in Latvia
Duration: 20 min
10:50 - 11:20
Latvia - Precision medicine and Oxford Nanopoore technologies (ONT)
Duration: 30 min
11:20 - 11:40
Estonia- Clinical implementation of genome sequencing in Estonia
Duration: 20 min
11:40 - 12:00
Targeted or whole genome sequencing for rare disorders in the diagnostic setting - Lithuanian case
Duration: 20 min
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
Duration: 60 min
13:00 - 14:00
The importance of quality control, accreditation and risk management
Duration: 60 min
14:00 - 14:30
Latvia - PSKUS Risk management
Duration: 30 min
14:30 - 15:00
Quality Indicators in Use: Lithuanian experience
Duration: 30 min
15:00 - 15:30
Estonia- Phlebotomy audits: The laboratory´s role in organizarion and oversight
Duration: 30 min
14:00 - 14:30
Latvia - Overwiew of the procedures for immunohematologikal examination of donors and patients in Latvia
Duration: 30 min
14:30 - 15:00
Lithuania, Platelet transfusion refractoriness and the significance of HPA
Duration: 30 min
15:00 - 15:30
Estonia - From Fragmented to Unified: Estonia’s Nationwide Blood Information System Journey
Duration: 30 min
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
Duration: 30 min
16:00 - 16:30
Latvia - Anaerobic microorganisms - the grey area of microbiology
Duration: 30 min
16:30 - 17:00
One patient, two yeasts: what Candida glabrata teaches us about blind spots in antifungal resistance diagnostics?
Duration: 30 min
17:00 - 17:30
Should Baltic Microbiologists Consider Shewanella – The First Clinical Case in Lithuania.
Duration: 30 min
Asta Dambrauskiene
16:00 - 16:20
A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders in the Baltic Countries
Duration: 20 min
16:20 - 16:40
Latvia - Diagnostic value of elevated and significantly elevated levels of vitamin B12
Duration: 20 min
16:40 - 17:00
Lithuania - Bleeding disorders testing in Baltic countries
Duration: 20 min
17:00 - 17:30
Thrombotic Microangiopathy: Clinical Pitfalls and Diagnostic Keys. First Steps Toward the Correct Diagnosis in Estonia
Duration: 30 min
Speaker TBA
09:00 - 10:00
Plenary lecture - International lecturer
Duration: 60 min
Green Labs - “Navigating Sustainable Advances, Innovations, and Challenges in Laboratory Medicine: A Green Perspective on Current Trends and Obstacles”
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
Duration: 30 min
10:30 - 10:50
Autoantibodies as epiphenomena: When the Laboratory Speaks, but the disease is absent
Duration: 20 min
10:50 - 11:10
Autoimmune liver diseases
Duration: 20 min
11:10 - 11:30
Estonia- Use of PLA2R in the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease
Duration: 20 min
11:30 - 12:00
Lithuania - Decoding Inflammatory Endotypes through Structural Cell Responses: Lessons from Asthma and Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Duration: 30 min
10:30 - 11:00
From Heidelberg to Riga: How precision medicine shapes the treatment of future pediatric patients
Duration: 30 min
11:00 - 11:30
Latvia-Implementation of a Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) Program in laboratory medicine
Duration: 30 min
11:30 - 12:00
Estonia - Establishment and implementation of a Patient Safety Database in Estoninan Healthcare
Duration: 30 min
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
Duration: 60 min
13:00 - 13:30
Use of AI In Diagnostics of Anemia
Duration: 30 min
13:30 - 14:00
"Greenlab Rollout: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned"
Duration: 30 min
14:00 - 14:30
Automation in microbiology laboratory practice
Duration: 30 min
13:00 - 13:20
The perspective of cancer screening in Europe: expectations from the EUCanScreen Joint Action
Duration: 20 min
13:20 - 13:40
Towards the implementation of organized cervical and colorectal cancer screening in Latvia.
Duration: 20 min
The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
13:40 - 14:00
Estonia- Precision screening of breast cancer, polygenic and monogenic risks
Duration: 20 min
14:00 - 14:30
Comprehensive Tumor Genomic Profiling by NGS: one year experience in clinical practice, advantages, challenges, and lessons
Duration: 30 min
14:30 - 15:00
Closing Ceremony
Duration: 30 min